hi,
as you can read here https://codex.buddypress.org/releases/version-1-6/ in the Profile Field section, since BP 1.6, each user can set his profile fields to different visibility option from within his profile option admin.
You can also modify the template profile loop from a child theme to avoid site wide not registered users to see profiles unless they are logged in, by adding the contionnal tag if bp_user_is_logged_in.
Add this just after the first line containing do_action and don’t forgot endif at the end of the page, just before the last do_action.
@djpaul “It should work out of the box in the activity component, but not in the group forums.”
Is this correct? I can embed video via a link in Group Forums.
Buddypress can run an unlimited number of members out of the box. Yes, there are lots of tweaks you can do to the software, but the real issues are going to be with your hardware. You really need to have someone that knows servers.
While technically possible, in my opinion BP should never be run on a shared server. Once you pass a couple thousand members multiple servers will most likely be needed.
The number of members is a poor matrix for judging a sites success (or needs). It completely depends on the type of site. Some use BP social features as the main component to their sites, others may just use it as a add-on, like a support forum. It also depends on how much media you use. Some sites use very little while others use lots of pictures and video.
PS
We run around 1.5 million unique visitors a month using BP.
hum.. the best way is to do nothing !
Yoast is certainly a well knowed WP plugin, but the best way IMO to be actually referenced in search engines is to publish regulary, pertinently with eventually a good cross referencing from other sites. This means reputation either then referencing directly. Good coding practice if you do this kind of work is also a good approach.
So far i know, no artifical URL coding trick through SEO plugins is satisfying at this time. Because it’s difficult to have a site according to several different search engines with complex and very different algorythms and methods for each. Anyway, it’s a long term work.
All the rest about SEO is litterature and marketing stuff.
WP let’s you chosse between URL with numbers or letters. Prefer text.
Keep also in mind that if your site is dedicated to something more or less unique and well documented, regulary updated, etc, it would at least have better chances to be found as a fashion site or a geek lair 
http://www.google.com/onceuponatime/technology/pigeonrank.html
http://lasanthaw.hubpages.com/hub/What-is-a-Search-Engine-and-how-does-it-work
To upset you a little more, see here 
http://www.google.fr/#hl=fr&gs_nf=1&cp=19&gs_id=fq&xhr=t&q=buddypress.org:+seo&pf=p&sclient=psy-ab&oq=buddypress.org:+seo&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=fa9ab9356798b6&biw=1467&bih=649
There is Comercial version of SeoPresss.
Im working in modified version of free SeoPresss and i add the rest of tags,
my version steel in developement and it is not stable.I will share it in wordpress plugins.
i want just to tell you too, the last version SeoPresss work in buddypress 1.6 but there is some bug in wp-admin, it make http 500 error with some other plugins.
Take a look at the bp_core_load_template() function — it gives you some filters, e.g. bp_located_template and bp_load_template, that you could try working with.
It’s a specialist piece of development, you’ll have to read through that code and work out how to apply to your specific situation.
@djpaul @boonebgorges Could you give this a quick look. I tried adding theme root and theme root uri but now it doesnt even load the stylesheet. So I have this in total to try and load my “MobileThemeBeta” for mobile browsers.
`add_filter( ‘template’, ‘my_mobile_template’, 99999, 1);
function my_mobile_template($template){
if(wp_is_mobile())
return ‘MobileThemeBeta’;
return $template;
}
add_filter( ‘theme_root’, ‘theme_root’, 99999, 1 );
function theme_root( $root_path ) {
if (wp_is_mobile())
return ‘MobileThemeBeta’;
return $root_path;
}
add_filter( ‘theme_root_uri’, ‘theme_root_uri’, 99999, 1 );
function theme_root_uri( $root_url ) {
if (wp_is_mobile())
return ‘MobileThemeBeta’;
return $root_url;
}
add_filter( ‘stylesheet’, ‘my_mobile_stylesheet’, 999999, 1);
function my_mobile_stylesheet($stylesheet){
if(wp_is_mobile())
return ‘MobileThemeBeta’;
return $stylesheet;
}`
@boonebgorges @mercime Just did that – and it’s the BP Docs plugin v1.1.24 going in between…
Sorry to say that, Boone
Almost certainly you have filter in functions.php to remove auto profile links. Unfortunately, the priority number on that filter was changed in a recent BuddyPress release, resulting in a lot broken sites. If you put the correct filter priority in functions.php, I suspect your site will work again. Have a Google at previous threads on here for correct number
Most successful sites have a user interface / experience tailored specifically to their user’s needs; with a compulsive reason to be there. Just putting up a generic platform with groups, activity and members directories, and hoping they’ll join is unlikely to work.
BuddyPress gives you a great platform to underpin your build, but you will need specialist design and development skills to craft that compulsive site with features your users will want and need to use.
[ Edit: for another large membership BP site, take a look at http://enterprisenation.com ]
@rogercoathup How would you change it to make it work?
Buddypress processes a number of urls and loads the templates directly. Do a search on load_template in the BP files
Notices fields are texturized. This means that html insertion is difficult and in fact not possible/not recommended. But you can post video links in forum topics or blog posts.
If you wanr to use many video links, give a try to BP-Links witch is better tailored for community usage as “want to say something, x ?”, intended for global messaging, not for content publication.
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-links/forum/topic/buddypress-1-6-support-and-the-future/
https://codex.wordpress.org/User:Here/Texturize
@shanebp, you’re right: it’s a html issue. This was what i first thinking too, but i searched around for some other solution and found JJJ’s answer. (see link in previous post)
Why using a supplementary JS script when the possibility is given to use a unique ID field buited in BP’s xprofile routine ?
So the only way to do this is through a plugin? I thought it was built in to BuddyPress.
When you say ‘each update’ do you mean of the theme or of BuddyPress?
@mercime: thanks! I’ll try this on a non-live site and see what happens. Not sure what I’ll do about it, but might as well try to narrow it down. Thanks again.
@haraldo88 either a theme issue or a plugin conflict because I don’t recall any issues with this in the days of BP 1.5+. Change to bp-default theme and see if error is corrected. If not, deactivate plugins except BuddyPress then check if you can reply to forum post.
B. CREATE A BLANK sidebar-buddypress.php
Open up the blank sidebar-buddypress.php file and at the very TOP of the file, add this:
`
`
Save file.
C. Upload header-buddypress.php and sidebar-buddypress.php to your theme folder in server wp-content/themes/snapwire/ in the same directory where your regular header.php and sidebar.php files are
D. Final note: Copy the style modifications for some BP elements https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/theme-dev-bp-template-pack-walkthrough-twenty-ten-bp-1-5/3/ and paste those at the bottom of your theme’s stylesheet, then adjust to taste.
@aindreas Based on the HTML structure of your theme, you will be only need to create two new files, header-buddypress.php and sidebar-buddypress.php to make the BP templates compatible with your theme.
If you’ve revised any of the BP template files transferred to your snapwire theme folder in server during the BP Compatibility process, please delete the 6 BP folders transferred to your snapwire theme folder in server – /activity, /blogs, /forums, /members, /groups, /register – then re-run Appearance > BP Compatibility again to make sure that you have clean template files.
A. COPY your theme’s header.php and Save As > header-buddypress.php
Open up header-buddypress.php and at the BOTTOM of the file, below other code contained within, add this:
`
`
Not sure if the breadcrumbs will work here, but if there’s an error, delete the last line (breadcrumbs) above.
Save file.
== I would like to have both option. Keep sidebar in right side when required or remove it completely ==
@mumbaipav looking over your files, you’d have to make a decision, it’s either
A. Create only two files (which I can post later) and upload to snapwire theme folder in server for either
1. All BP templates with sidebar, or
2. All BP templates no sidebar
OR
B. Revise 16 BP Template files for some BP templates with sidebar and some with no sidebar (full-width)
Btw, should you opt for full-width either way, post code of full-width page in pastebin.com
No you’re at the right place
Answer from @JJJ here (since BP 1.3):
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/custom-profile-field-limit-to-5-numbers/
And BP 1.6 introduces ‘multi_format’ parameter to xprofile_get_field_data(), so that themers can return comma-separated values as an option (source: BP codex)
But no idea at this time (no doc for this in codex) on how to use this in your case. Sorry.
Try to ask @modemlooper ?
I will thanks .. But the funny part is even on the live preview of themeforest the problem exits
http://themeforest.net/item/huddle-wordpress-buddypress-community-theme/full_screen_preview/835549
Anyways thanks a lot guys
Tirtha
This site has 70,000 members. http://tastykitchen.com
Any site that is self hosted needs work and knowledge to run properly. Also, anytime you start customizing a site it can run into problems. I’m not trying to discourage BuddyPress just giving a realistic reply to running a site. You are basically asking if Facebook could run without developers.
